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In my last year in undergrad, The Occidental College Republican Club a.k.a The Oxy Conservative Club
a.k.a The White Folks Who Might Could Get They Ass Beat Club,
planned a “memorial” for the victims of 9/11.
There’s something about the sight of three thousand american flags — standing at attention along the edges of the quad —
That placed me back, inside myself at five, standing in front of my home Seeing a swastika an—d the phrase “leave niggers” for the first time Funny how these symbols have become to me
A blended family of symbolic hatred
On the massive F-150 parked right next to our car in an otherwise empty parking lot a decal on the windshield depicting the statue of liberty holding not flame but firearm
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